Wield U9's vs Basingstoke U9's, Saturday 1st June
Another weekend, another win, 5 out of five for the season!
As we seem to be slipping into a rhythm of sunny weekends and wet weeks, we arrived at Saturday morning 1st June and the month was already living up to its reputation – Flaming! The dew had gone by the time the toss came round at 1000 and that was the end of Wield’s losses for the day. Basingstoke put themselves into bat and the first bowling pair of Wilf and Millie immediately pegged them back to 203, Wilf taking a wicket in each of his overs. Gilbert and Joseph strolled to their respective creases and Gilbert opened his account with another two. Basingstoke moved to 206. Ellie and Ella arrived and Basingstoke began to get in their stride, no wickets for this pair and the score moved to a respectable 217. As Wield was one short due to a late drop out Wilf returned to bowling duties alongside Bruce and took another 2 wickets, while Bruce held down the other end with 2 also. Basingstoke subsided to 202. The bowling was particularly keen this morning, 7 of the 8 wickets were bowled. A quick Wield tea with grateful thanks from Judy and Sarah and Wield was in business again and into bat.
The enthusiasm and excitement showed and the opening pair of Wilf and Millie both suffered a wicket each but left the score after their overs at 208. Gilbert and Joseph plundered freely, with quick running between the stumps and only one wicket down - the score increased to 225. It can all fall down so quickly though and the supporters’ nerves were fraying! Ellie and Ella swung their bats, lost no wickets and helped along with two 4s from Ellie lifted the score to 249 - we began to breathe easier on the boundary. As Wilf had bowled the extra overs we had Gilbert bat out the extra with Bruce and the two of them scored fast...Bruce hit three 4s and lost a wicket while at the other end Gilbert hit two 6s and a 4, finishing on 21 for his second innings. With seven in the field and only three players with regular caps we did a great job this week and can be proud of another great all round performance by the team. Tight bowling, enthusiastic batting and swift fielding restricted the opposition’s options and set us up well for the next game against Hook on 9 June.
Rupert Cazalet